†subfamily Athyridinae M'Coy 1844 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Parent taxon: Athyrididae according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Alvarez and Brunton 1993 and Brunton and Champion 1974

Sister taxa: Athyris naliensis, Athyrisininae, Baliqliqia, Cleiothyridininae, Comelicaniinae, Didymothyridinae, Helenathyridinae, Janicepsinae, Kintathyris, Lochengiinae, Mayangella, Pachyplaxoides, Plicathyridinae, Pradoiinae, Protathyridinae, Spirigerellinae, Tarimathyris, Transcaucasathyriinae, Xenosariinae

Subtaxa: Actinoconchus Alvarezites Athyris Atrythyris Brimethyris Bruntonites Eifyris Gonathyris Imacanthyris Johnsonathyris Lamellosathyris Meristospira Pachyplax Protathyris Zonathyris

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Type: Athyris

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (10 collections), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), East Timor (1), Hungary (7), India (5), Indonesia (5), Italy (5), Nepal (1), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (19), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), United States (2: California, Nevada)

• Permian to Triassic of India (1)

• Permian of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (1), China (19), Indonesia (3), Laos (1), Pakistan (95), the Russian Federation (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (4: Texas)

• Namurian of Australia (4)

• Chesterian of United States (6: Arkansas, Oklahoma)

• Osagean of Mexico (2), United States (1: Indiana)

• Mississippian of United States (6: Alaska, Arizona, California, Indiana)

• Carboniferous of Australia (17), Canada (2: Alberta, Yukon), China (3), Egypt (1), India (1), Ireland (3), Libya (1), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (26: Arizona, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia)

• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (6), Algeria (1), Australia (7), Belgium (77), Canada (27: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (36), the Czech Republic (4), France (27), Germany (34), Iran (2), Libya (4), Morocco (12), Myanmar (2), Poland (31), the Russian Federation (25), Spain (69), Tajikistan (6), Thailand (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (365: Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (6)

• Silurian of Canada (5: Manitoba, Northwest Territories), China (15), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alaska, California, Kentucky, Nevada, Ohio, West Virginia)

Total: 1063 collections including 1228 occurrences

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